A husband invokes our supervisory jurisdiction to halt temporary pre-divorce alimony proceedings by his wife as an adjunct to her suit for separation from bed and board. The husband relies on Orr v. Orr, 1979, ___ U.S. ___, 99 S.Ct. 1102, 59 L.Ed.2d 306, as effectively invalidating under U.S.Const. amend. 14, as denying equal protection of the law, the Louisiana temporary alimony law, Article 148 of the Louisiana Civil Code.
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